---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-014186"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CBU"
cik: "0000723188"
company_name: "COMMUNITY FINANCIAL SYSTEM, INC."
filed_at: "2025-02-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-26T21:47:47.878733+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Director Susan Skerritt to retire from Community Financial Board after 2025 annual meeting

## Summary
- Susan Skerritt notified Company she will not stand for re-election at the 2025 Annual Meeting.
- Retirement effective immediately following the 2025 Annual Meeting.
- Resignation not due to any disagreement with Company's operations, policies or practices.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-014186
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CBU
- cik: 0000723188
- company_name: COMMUNITY FINANCIAL SYSTEM, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-02-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/723188/000110465925014186/0001104659-25-014186-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/723188/000110465925014186/tm256547d1_8k.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-014186
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-014186.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Susan E. Skerritt retired as Director at COMMUNITY FINANCIAL SYSTEM, INC..
  - Action: retired
  - Role: Director
  source text: On February 13, 2025, Susan E. Skerritt, a member of the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Community Financial System, Inc. (the “Company”) notified the Company that she will not stand for re-election at the Company’s 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders (the “2025 Annual Meeting”) and will retire from the Board, effective immediately following the 2025 Annual Meeting.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/723188/000110465925014186/0001104659-25-014186-index.htm

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